She decides to return! To be at your side! With Mary, let us go in haste And in a special way, she comes to dwell in every heart through the Covenant of Love, thus establishing her home in each one of them. She also chooses to return and dwell among many of the families who invite her to their Home Shrine. And this is repeated in various Marian Shrines of the Church. This is what those who come to the Schoenstatt Shrine experience as they feel the real presence of the MTA. Throughout the centuries, Mary has decided to come into the world to meet her children and to be close to each one of them.

And even though she is already living in heaven, it remains so. Knowing the texts that speak about the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bible, it is easy to notice that in her life there is no ease, no omission. She chooses to return: to the Shrine, to her home, to your heart Our Lady’s eyes do not rest until she finds them” . She wants to know where her sons and daughters are, where they work, if they are in danger. Her eyes are continually searching for us. “I can easily imagine,” says Father Joseph Kentenich, “how Our Lady looks at us from heaven or here in the Shrine. Mary has already had her happy ending, but the story continues! Even though she dwells in heaven, the Virgin Mary is still the protagonist of the script God created for humanity. The life of Jesus’ mother could be the inspiration for a great movie, but we know that the Assumption is not the end of the story. Through this constitution, it became a truth of faith that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory ”.

The definition of this dogma was given by Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus. Thanks to this solemn feast of the Church, many countries have regional, municipal, or national celebrations on August 15th. If it were a Hollywood production, the Assumption of Our Lady would probably be the happy ending of the plot. Imagine Mary’s life as the script for a movie.

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